School Counselor Sarah

Lesson to go along with the book, "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?" Includes scenarios, as well as an activity where students fill each others' "buckets" with kind words. Works best with a group that knows each other pretty well - maybe toward the middle of the year. Last slide is the bucket to print for each student.

"take what you need" sign for when you're out of the office.

Coping Skills lesson, best used for grades 2-6, but could also be modified for younger or older grades! This lesson contains 5 centers for you to use to teach students coping skills. Materials you would need to provide can be seen in the thumbnail image 3.

Lesson on perseverance! You can choose from two activities and alter the lesson to fit any time constraint (I've done this with a 30-minute lesson and a 60-minute lesson).

30-question quiz game for careers! I've had a lot of success putting kids into groups and giving each group a whiteboard. The first few questions are multiple choice, the last few they write down what career they think is being described.

Mind Your Own Business is meant to be a quick, less than 10-minute lesson for teachers having difficulty with students telling others what to do. A good follow-up would be to count the amount of times each day they were in someone else's business, and try to decrease that number each day.

This lesson begins by having students write down something mean someone has said to them and putting it on the board. Then, the class will get to know each other better by participating in an activity where they step forward if a statement applies to them (then steps back to the line after the discussion). The lesson concludes with students reclaiming the mean words and writing nice statements instead. Throughout discussion, classmates are helping each other understand their struggles, and discu

5 Greenery-themed Growth Mindset posters, saying the following: 1. "Every mistake you make is progress" 2. "The expert of anything was once a beginner" 3. "If you change your mindset you have the ability to change the whole world" 4. "Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream...you've gotta protect it. If you want something, go get it. Period." (Will Smith, Pursuit of Happyness) 5. "Flowers bloom on their own time, and so do you"

Requested door sign for Speech teachers! :)

Door sign for school counselors to communicate where the counselor is in the building. Provides insight to students or staff seeking the counselor.